The Typical Constructible Object

Abstract

Baire Category is an important concept in mathematical analysis. It gives a notion of large set, hence a way of identifying the properties of typical objects. One of the most important applications of Baire Category is to provide a way of proving the existence of objects with specified properties without having to give an explicit construction, showing at the same time that these properties are prevalent. For instance it has been extensively used in mathematical analysis to better understand and separate classes of real functions such as analytic and smooth functions (see [9] for a wide range of applications of the Baire Category Theorem in analysis).